Hello all! I didn't feel like writing last week because literally nothing happened. Not one thing. And last Monday night I went to bed thinking "I wish something interesting had happened so my life isn't so boring." And cue the karma. So Monday night we heard a couple rounds of gunshots but it happens frequently so we ignored it. Anyways, we went to bed, I wished for life to be more interesting and then I went to sleep. 3:30 IN THE MORNING we woke up to a loud banging and yelling to open the door. I was pretty sure it was either the people who had been shooting earlier that night or it was the police. We sat up in bed and were pretty scared. They kept banging and yelling at us to open the door so we hopped out of bed and I handed Sister Lloyd my phone and told her to call 911. She just looks at me and said "Sister I don't know how to dial 911. I've never had to dial it on my mission before!" My initial thought after she said that was "Great, we're gonna die." I was a little snappy when I looked at her and said " You push 9-1-1 then hit the call button!!" She couldn't bring herself to do it and told me to go look through the peephole before we tried. Keep in mind that the banging is getting louder by the minute. I go to look through the peephole and Sister Lloyd, the chicken, backs away and makes me do it by myself!!! I looked and there were firemen. I opened the door and they told us that there had been a CO2 leak next door and since we shared a wall with them, the firemen needed to check our apt. We couldn't go back to bed so we called the Larsens while the firemen checked our apt and let them know that the firemen were there and why they were there. It took 30 minutes for things to get well enough that we could go back inside and grab some things to head over to my old apt in Lake Ridge. We could have stayed at the Woodbridge apt after they were done but we wanted to go to bed and there was a gas smell that happened while the firemen were there and we were like nope. We got to Lake Ridge at 4:30am and went to bed. Because of all the excitement we still had some pretty high adrenaline going so we had a hard time going to sleep. 45 minutes later when we were almost asleep, we heard an alarm go off. We sat up and said "You have got to be kidding me!! Not again!" It took a few seconds to realize it was a car alarm and not a fire alarm. So we went back to bed. But because of the alarm, we had another adrenaline rush! So 6-6:30 am we finally fell asleep. The Larsens gave us permission to sleep in. We slept till 8:15am and then went back to the Woodbridge apt. We were soooo tired that day. We fell asleep during lunch and again during dinner. So that's the latest adventure. After that night we started praying for safety every night in our companion prayers and we haven't missed a night!
This week has been a bit of a struggle to get ahold of any of our friends. But we found one new person in the Woodbridge area! Side note: For those that don't know, we cover two areas. Anyways, this week has been difficult but it's okay! We are going for drives a lot more to keep sane and we go for lots of walks. Our friends are doing pretty good, we had one move out of our area which was sad, he moved to Alexandria so hopefully we can get in contact and refer him to missionaries there.
We gave our YSA group to a different set of missionaries so that we can focus more in Lake Ridge and Woodbridge. It was sad because the YSA's are amazing and we love them. But these sisters who cover it now are great and will do good with it.
Ummmmmmm lets see, I think that's about it. We have to do these facebook videos so I'll include a link so you can all see the videos. They are kinda dumb but not too bad. I hope you are all doing well and having fun! Love you all!
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